Markets are healthy.

My bet is the S1 filing causes the company, and the AI bubble, to collapse.

Aaron Paul was excellent in Westworld S3.

It’s like the author masturbated onto a page and sent the, uh, outputs to their editor.

If Tolkien were writing Sméagol in 2026 he’d base the character on the “Claude Code blew my mind” bronies.

No need to go to the trouble of producing actual CSAM if one is an enterprising criminal on the dark web. No, no need for anything so messy. Just pay $8/mo. to Elon Musk for an X subscription and have Grok simulate child sex abuse for you. So clean, so efficient.

Technology is not **form** it is **function.** With good technology the **form** is invisible because the **function** is obvious. Good technology is invisible, or reasonably so.

I would cherish being blocked by Casey Newton.

It’s Aviation Week at @panophotos.bsky.social Here’s a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 taking off from Portland International Airport (PDX) with the silhouette of Mount Hood in the background. #Panorama #PanoPhotos #Aviation #Photography #Oregon #PNW

Something to note about the ICE occupation of Minneapolis is how much of it is begat of decades of conservative propaganda resulting in an army of angry rural/exurban white men. They created an army of men like the guy below, and now they're on the streets of Minneapolis with automatic weapons:

I see even Tyler, normally mild-mannered in a way where his opinions, unlike mine, avoid regular use of the word "masturbatory," is being radicalized. But, yes: we are in an age of performance stagnation/regression, and these chodes are lying to themselves and everyone.

Minnesotans are very much not having it, while the recently re-elected Minneapolis mayor is chiding protesters for hypothetical property damage. Democratic mayor Jacob Frey is really showing what he’s worth.

It’s, again, great to see leaders of the opposition party out here. So heartening to see Kamala Harris showing her true colors, and “Mayor Pete” showing very mayoral concern for an urban occupation, and the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens. The party is really stepping up.

Again, it’s absolutely great seeing the leaders of the Democratic party out here resisting. I’m sure someone is informing Precious Kamala, Avatar of All That’s Good™️ about this right now. She’s out here, working for the people! Ditto “Mayor Pete!”

Warms my heart, and makes me have hope for democracy, when I see 2028 Democratic presidential nominee contenders step up to lead the resistance. Seeing Precious Kamala, Avatar of Feminism™️ at protests is very heartening. I mean she could be flying around on private jets on a book tour, after all.

How this broken, nonfunctional technology — which is mostly make-believe as it is brittle beyond belief — ever got off the ground/was touted as a “revolution“ is beyond me. A triumph of public relations.

Robo-Slave Tech™️ is both fantasy and scam. This is a make believe technology, it doesn't exist. But here, at the start of 2026, we're all being asked to pretend this nonexistent technology is real. But it's not.

"Yeah, they're making CSAM in this bar, and, yes, they're not even hiding it...just look over there, they're making it in front of us right now. But I really don't feel I should have to leave this bar, leaving would mean the CSAM makers win." "I'm taking a moral stance, please take me seriously."

This is what I've been saying, along with others, since this started: Grok outputting CSAM/deepfakes isn't an accident, it was a decision that was made to turn off the safety guardrails limiting model outputs. It was a decision. A decision by this man. They turned off the safety guardrails.

It's difficult to overstate the level of inappropriateness and insanity here, even if one moves past the "projects from past employers" bit. What is even happening in this economy? Has everyone gone insane?

A few months ago I was near certain we’d spend 2026 pretending “quantum,” a largely nonexistent technology, was both a working, functional technology and available to cos. and consumers. Instead we’re going to pretend robot slaves are real. Animatronics, it seems, are easier to use for fakery.

Discussion shouldn’t be about the next generation of chips, it should be about where all the unaccounted for product is hiding. No analysts can account for all the chips Nvidia has stated, publicly, it has sold. Where are they? It’s pretty clear we have warehouses full of unused, unopened product.

These hagiographies are so corrosive to the discourse.

We clearly needed yet another LLM orchestration framework. “If you build it they will come,“ right? Or more: “if you build it, if you build 7000 versions of it, if you pollute the entire software ecosystem with bespoke versions of it, then you’ll create the appearance of interest, of demand.”

I’ve been saying that we are in the Age of Pretending.™️ It’s everywhere, but especially at present we’re asked to pretend (1) “agents” are a real, functioning technology, and (2) robo-slave tech™️ is here. All lies. All fantasy.

Robot Slave Tech™️ is a fantasy and a scam.

My god, S2 of the Night Manager.

Excel is such a pox.

"Agents," an imaginary technology that can best be understood as the disembodied kin of the robot slave, truly are the apex of LLM-era insanity. This is positively baroque.

The thread involves Gerard disemboweling someone, worth a read. But here's the thing about LLMs: they're unreliable, and reliability isn't improving, in fact its plateaued. This is as good as it gets. It's important to understand that THIS ISN'T A FUNCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY. It's make-believe.

Okay, so can we talk about how Noah Wyle is hot hot hot in the Pitt? I mean...he is, without question, "daddy."

This doesn’t pass the smell test.

One BILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!

Almost certainly the case. Actual revenue is only a fraction of what these cos. have been claiming; the effects of showing such a large discrepancy between the fantasy numbers Altman, Amodei, et al throw out and reality is not something they are capable of handling. They will attempt to hide this.

Have I sung the praises of MLflow lately? Because I really cannot express how good the library is; it puts every other MLOps framework to shame.

It’s still the age of “let’s pretend ‘agents’ are a functional technology.”

What’s happened here is Musk has made the choice to turn off safety systems. Normally, these models contain instructions not to generate harmful outputs, Musk has simply disabled these. This a choice and, once again, Musk has not been held accountable. Is he ever held to account for anything?

Lol, we’re all going to die.

This will end badly, though China can absorb the collapse. Unlike the US, the Chinese didn’t let these companies become a shocking fraction of their economy. I doubt OpenAI or Anthropic will even attempt IPO.

The Age of Pretending™️!!!!!! Add this to the pile of things we’re going to pretend will happen. The kaleidoscope of never ending perversions turns and turns.

It’s amazing how nothing can seem to pry users away from X, especially media and political elites. Nothing. Not even CSAM. There’s no point where they will ever leave. They just love it, and — obviously, via their actions — find it to be completely unproblematic.

Lol, and what throws gasoline all over this situation? You know it, you all know: Arxiv, the 4Chan of Academia™️!!!

"Cloid" sounds like a type of malignant growth one would find on one's genitals. Apologies, but the Robo-Slave Tech™️ content this week will be wall-to-wall.

This technology is nothing more than a masturbatory fantasy. If you want to fully understand Robo-Slave Tech™️ do this: 1.) Close your eyes 2.) Visualize a middle aged man masturbating, alone, in a nondescript suburban bedroom on a weekday afternoon There, you now understand Robo-Slave Tech.™️

I'm so glad people are finally starting to call out these "Diet Maga" establishment cretins. Klobuchar must (1) be evicted from the party, and (2) blacklisted to ensure she cannot grift via lobbying. She is an **abomination** and a **fool** to be **purged.**

Have I expressed lately my hate for Death Cab for Cutie and, spec., Ben Gibbard and his voice? This band has no talent, Gibbard's voice and his awful lyrics are recognizable anywhere in the same way a screaming child is immediately recognizable. I just cannot overstate how much I hate this band.

Cleaning up the mess of the past few years will take ages.

Real demand for AI is only a fraction of what the discourse would indicate. The discourse is manipulated and largely false, of course, but the signs of flagging demand are everywhere: aggregate usage statistics like this + the lack of a GPU crunch.

Posit loves to think itself a good steward, or maybe a good shepherd, in DS/ML, but I’ve never seen the company as much more than a nuisance. Why, in 2026, does R even still exist? All the many libraries IDEs, etc. the co. puts out just pollute the space. We’d all be better off if Posit folded.

Sorry for the continued politics, but this happens when the Gestapo murders a mother a mile-ish from where you were standing. Just want to point out what a piece of garbage this centrist, “Maga Lite” fool is: yes, Amy Klobuchar, the issue isn’t the existence of a Gestapo, it’s lack of coordination!